Luke Plunkett

Trackmania Finally Barrell Rolls Its Way To The Wii

It appears that after nearly two years of talk (and little else), cult create-a-racer Trackmania is finally making its way onto the Nintendo Wii. It’s been announced that Firebrand Games – the team behind the recent Trackmania DS – are on development duties, with the game set to make a public appearance at Germany’s big…

Tropico 3 Box Art Is So Despotic It’s Adorable

As seen on Giant Bomb.

Mega Man 9 Gets A Lot Harder With New DLC

A common complaint these days when it comes to downloadable content is that there’s too much of it that makes a game easier to play/complete. Paying to cheat, basically. Paying to make the game harder, though, that’s different. A new piece of DLC has been released today for Mega Man 9 called “Superhero Mode”. It…

GameStop Joins The PC Gaming Alliance

The PC Gaming Alliance announced today that their ranks have been bolstered by the addition of eight new member companies, including the world’s largest specialist games retailer, GameStop. Joining the global retail giant are Gas Powered Games – the studio behind Supreme Commander – along with online games portal GameTap, BFG Technologies, Bigfoot Networks, Flextronics,…

Korean Game Trailer Likes Halo A Little Too Much

South Koreans are renowned for many things, but when it comes to games development, adhering to copyright laws isn’t one of them. Latest case in point: this trailer for Sudden Attack. While the gameplay looks a little “been there, done that”, it’s not the only overly-familiar thing about the trailer. We could swear we’ve heard…

Battlefield Heroes’ 1.5 Million Players Have Spent A LOT Of Money [Update]

Battlefield Heroes is a living, breathing experiment in online gaming for Electronic Arts. It’s also one that I’m particularly fond of. But just how successful has it been for the company? Going by these numbers, I’d say “very.” EA have sat down with the game’s statistics and whittled them down into some palatable, practical numbers.…

More Footage From The Behemoth’s Next Game

The Behemoth – creators of Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers – are working on something new. It doesn’t have a name yet (just "game #3"), but it does have this new trailer. Last time we showed you this, most people felt a little…underwhelmed. Weren’t quite sure what’s going on. This trailer, however, has developer commentary,…

Operation Flashpoint 2 System Requirements: Bring Multiple Cores

Looks like Codemasters have quietly slipped some system requirements for the upcoming Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising into a post on the game’s official boards. Those expecting an easy run of things will be…wait, were any of you really expecting an easy run of things? New developers or not, this is a Flashpoint game, only…

Quick, To The Batcave, PlayStation Home!

Batman: Arkham Asylum is almost upon us, so publishers Warner Bros. have stepped up their love affair with all things PlayStation with the announcement of a special, Bat-themed tie-in with PlayStation Home. Anyone purchasing the game on PS3 will be given a free unlock for PlayStation Home, giving them the option of decking out their…

Latest Harbingers Of The Impending PS3 Slimpocalypse: British Retail

Boy, these PS3 Slim rumours are really building up a good head of steam, no? We’re averaging one good rumour a day on them, the latest being a fairly sensible one, courtesy of British retailers. According to trade site MCV, British retailers are currently in the process of “clearing PS3 hardware stock from the channel”,…

Elite 360 Dropping In Price, RIP Pro Model

Looks like we have an execution date for the Xbox 360 Pro model, with this shot from a Meijer catalogue due on August 30 indicating the 360 Elite is in line for a Pro-sized price cut. You’ll remember, of course, that the origins of this rumour – Ars Technica’s ever-reliable Microsoft mole – are that…

So, What Was The World’s Very First Gamertag?

While there are millions and millions (and millions!) of gamertags out there now, in the beginning, there was but one. The alpha, the creator, Xbox Live’s Adam, before he lost a rib. So, who was it? As part of a little Q&A about the new Xbox dashboard, Microsoft’s Larry Hryb has disclosed that the very…

New CryEngine 3 Demo

id weren’t the only ones showing off fancy new graphics engines at the SIGGRAPH 2009 conference in New Orleans. Crytek were there too, with a new CryEngine 3 demo. Granted, it’s not the most exciting clip – there’s no guns, Koreans or explosions – but it is showing that, as texture counts become ever less…

If Only There Were PS2 Games On The PSN…

Do you dream about things? We don’t. Dreaming is for dreamers. We prefer to spend our spare time thinking merely of things that should be, but are not. Which is where these new kind of Kotaku posts come in. If you see a post tagged “Let’s Fantasy”, that’s exactly what it is: fantasy. An idea,…

After Monkey Island, Telltale Looking At…Loom?

During a podcast chit-chat with PC Gaming Now, Telltale’s Dave Grossman has revealed that, once his team is done with Tales of Monkey Island, another classic Lucasarts game might be ripe for the remake/sequel treatment. “The one I always think about these days is Loom actually”, Grossman says, “and how ahead of its time it…

Sony Europe: PSN Game Delays? It’s The Publisher’s Fault!

PAL customers often have a hard time of it. Delays, higher prices, that sort of thing. So Sony Europe have taken the time to pull up a chair, have a little chat, try and explain some of that stuff. On the topic of delayed games – particularly those on the PSN – Sony’s Angela Madronero…

Oh Goodie, Another Mother Statue

Camille Young’s handmade, resin statues are exquisite. But she doesn’t just make ’em for Mother 3 handbooks! Oh no. She makes them for previous games in the series as well. Here’s Ness. Since we used “exquisite” already, we’ll have to use something else for this guy. “Delightful”? Yeah, that’ll work. Ness Figure [Tiny Cartridge]

Mega64: A PS3 Slim Ghost Story

The PS3 Slim isn’t scary. Not in of itself. It’s just a (heavily rumoured/expected) machine! But the story of Sony’s reaction to early reports of the supposed machine, man, that’s some terrifying stuff.

PC Sales Charts: Sales Of Iron

I’m going to look past the top PC games of the past week, and focus on a quiet achiever that’s doing well on both the Steam and Direct2Drive listings: Hearts of Iron III. It’s from a long line of dry, dry strategy games, as archaic and “old school” as PC gaming gets, and look at…

Wi-Fi Company Sues Nintendo, Sony

Bandspeed, a company specialising in wi-fi networks, has filed a patent infringement suit against Nintendo, Sony and Apple, claiming devices from all three companies cut a little too close to two patents they hold. At the heart of the lawsuit are three devices – the PS3, Wii and iPhone 3G – which Bandspeed allege violate…